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Cabinet - Sources

'Tradescant's Orchard' Herbal
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III.3 The Seven Liberal Arts
Joseph Du Chesne (Quercetanus) (1546-1609)
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Geoffrey Shepherd's Letters Pt. 2
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The mariner's astrolabe: derivation and usage
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Willem Piso and Georg Marggraf's 'Historia naturalis Brasiliae' (1648)
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Jan van Kessel, the Elder, c. 1650-3.
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10. The Watermill
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Clement VII by Sebastiano del Piombo (c. 1531)
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Конфеты Кара-Кум (Центральная Азия)
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Claudius Ptolemy, Geographia (Basel, 1542)
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VI.9 Unintended consequences
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De Sphera
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Clone of The fifth element and medieval cosmology
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Brahe's description of Uraniborg, f. 40v
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Alexander VII, by Giovanni Battista Gaulli (after 1650)
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'The Flight of the Vestal Virgins,' Biagio di Antonio Tucci
Modelling the movements of the heavens
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Raphael, School of Athens (1509-1510)
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II.1 Where, and what, is the university?
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Recreation of Ancient Paintings: Botticelli, The Calumny of Apelles (1496-1497)
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The four treasures of the study: ink, inkstone, brush, and paper
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‘Types at the Fair’
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Drawing of a lake
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